THANK YOU for making this video! In my school that mostly used PC's, being so close to IBM of NY, I had a few periods where I used to go to a resource room for extra help and they had an Apple IIc that was like the only Mac product left in the school. I remember just liking the shape and design and quietness of the product and its smooth thin keys much better to the PC's we had in the computer labs and classrooms. Just having trouble remembering if it was the floppy or hard disk drive upgrade model. Thank you again! Great video!
Hahaha!!!! " Well, yeah. Of course you can.......but what the hell kind of fun is that?" Exactly!!! Enjoyed this one Matt! Makes me want to dig up the ole IIC back at the house in Texas!
Greatest combination of all time! I'd like to see this setup in a coffee shop one day. Matt, you're very *cool* for sharing this with us. I enjoyed the ambitious remark at the end as well. :)
Amazing! Do you think you can do this? Apple Video Connector (1990's) to VGA to HDMI to DisplayPort to Cinema Display? Hint: Apple Video Connector Was used on many of Apple's 1990's computers.
That actually looks quite good, with the IIc. Here's an idea for "New Tech Old Tech." Replace ancient noisy 3.5-inch IDE hard drive in the original CRT iMac (or other old Mac you own), with a tiny current SD card. I did this with 2.5-inch IDE hard drive in my year 2000 PowerBook (Pismo), using adapter from "Sintech" and a common 32GB SDXC card. It worked great, although my Pismo now has an even BETTER solution. :)
My yellow composite cable works connected to my 48 inch Sony Bravia HD tv. The only thing I have not figured out is if theres a way to have two cables connected with some kind of splitter so I wouldn’t have to keep,disconnecting my cable for the Apple ][ GS and the to the ][e and keep having to,do it every time I switch. Gives me a great color display for free.
But my main concern is, does the converter and TV interpret the Apple II's low resolution 192p signal properly? I've seen problems with older gaming consoles where HDTV's will misinterpret those consoles 240p signals as 480i, causing side effects such as heavy blurring, jittery images, skipped frames or "combing", an issue where 2 progressive scan frames are combined to look like an interlaced frame (you will see lines during fast motion or rapidly flashing images). I heard that cheaper analog to HDMI converters still won't interpret the signal properly, but more expensive ones such as the XRGB Mini framemeister will convert it properly. Also, the XRGB mini has RGB input, which may show better quality with newer Apple II models such as the IIc.
Ryan Good I would hope that this works. The Apple II's video signal is (more or less) NTSC-compliant. This is why it always worked on TVs with a cheap RF modulator (Apple's original solution before they started shipping monitors.) A composite-to-HDMI adapter that can't handle the signal wouldn't be able to handle old VCRs, game consoles or anything else from that era.
Dear Mr Mathew. Please could you help me. I have an Apple II GS, is there any way for change the monitor for a new flat monitor ? Is the same way as the Apple C of your video or need another one kind of interphase or adapter. Thanks
Hi Matt! I had a question for FCPX. I recently bought the software and I'm wondering how you add images into you videos that aren't perfectly rectangular. Thanks!
There aren't enough donkeys in the world to fully express how much this kicks ass. Kudos! I hope you figure out your keyboard problem with your Apple ][
As usual awesome video! Please make videos more often. I really look forward to watch your videos. Keep up the great work. A room set up, new tech, review, etc MAKE MORE CONTENT!!!
The color issues you are having are actually normal. I have an old Apple ][e and whenever I would hook it up to something that was displaying color it would do that very same thing. I used to use an old style VCR and use that to go directly to a TV set from there and had the same display issues. Not to mention that the TV sets I had back then didn't have a video in port on them, just the cable in. However with that said, if you had a monitor form that era, then because of the way it reads the signal it would appear much better.
Packard Sonic This is because the Apple II used some ugly hacks to produce NTSC color. They did not generate a proper color signal, but play games with odd/even pixels in the presence of a colorburst signal to fake it. Which means that text ends up with lots of color fringes. Then they improved on the hack (in the //c and //e - don't know about older models) by turning off the colorburst signal when in text mode, to avoid this color fringing when just displaying text (which is critical when trying to display 80-column text. Apple's color monitors (and some other composite monitors) would sense the absence of the colorburst signal and display everything in monochrome mode. Apple's monitors would also have a pushbutton to force it into monochrome mode even in the presence of colorburst, in order to support apps designed for displaying graphics on monochrome monitors. But, as I learned from personal experience, most TVs (especially if you use something like a VCR as an RF modulator) will respond poorly to the absence of the colorburst signal. My experience showed that this would produce color fringes in text mode, and that the fringes would flicker on and off (vs always being on when in graphics mode.) The blue vertical lines that the first Apple II displayed are indicative of a hardware problem. That never happened, even with a TV.
Shamino0 Thats intersting. I was able to record some of the graphics out to a VRC from my Apple ][e (As I recall the "e" stood for enhanced It made some of the graphics watchable to a point) and the signals came out not great like we have today standards, but watchable at least to a degree. Text was a whole other issue especially if it was 80 columns. I did most my work on a green screen for text editing. But I didn't know about the color burst thing. Thank you for telling me about that.
Apple // initially weren't able to display colors in europe, it's basically using weaknesses of the ntsc standart to create colors.but soon enough, people made rgb cards for scart televisions ( and rgb monitors too )
Man I had one of those apple 2 computers in the 90s but it broke :( I'm thinking of buying one again now that I see you can plug it up on the apple display
Proud to say this was the first computer I ever used, and I also remember the monochromatic green screen.
Do Apple 2 unboxing
***** I have a question about the give away (LG G4). Will the winner(s) be announced on 30 or 29 of may?
***** I still have one to this day. Hasn't been fired in about 15-20 years but it might still work
***** Lol, that Apple 2 is so classic and so revolutionary for computers out there. The good ol' days of the Apple 2.
Im new..hope i win...God bless
Pretty damn awesome.
***** Agreed. Good job Mat, this is awesome. I love you comment at the end :D
+Jonathan Morrison Yeah it was. lol
"But lucky for you guys, I'm not normal" I actually laughed out loud at that. Love this series! Very cool. :)
***** Thanks, glad you liked it!
I love this! Next time: Connect your Mac Pro to the Apple IIc Monitor!
Ooo
TechnikTobi Awesome.
Youuuuuuu need to do more of these.
DuctTape FromThe70s IIIIIIIII'm working on one right now! It should be up by the weekend!
+Matthew Pearce WHERE IS IT?
Oregon Trail FTW! Brings me back to elementary school.
This isn't only well shot and carefully thought through - It's so fun too! Love this video, Matthew!
Always fun to see that even after all these years the devices are working just fine!
Loved the humor in this video with the commentary. Nice direction taken matt! Look forward to the new videos coming.
Matthew Baillargeon Thanks man. Cool name, btw!
Matthew Pearce Thanks ;) I agree Matt is a great name!
I'm just gonna go ahead and watch all your videos from your New Tech Old Tech series
THANK YOU for making this video! In my school that mostly used PC's, being so close to IBM of NY, I had a few periods where I used to go to a resource room for extra help and they had an Apple IIc that was like the only Mac product left in the school. I remember just liking the shape and design and quietness of the product and its smooth thin keys much better to the PC's we had in the computer labs and classrooms. Just having trouble remembering if it was the floppy or hard disk drive upgrade model. Thank you again! Great video!
Cinema Display still looks gorgeous after 4 years in the market.
Hahaha!!!! " Well, yeah. Of course you can.......but what the hell kind of fun is that?" Exactly!!! Enjoyed this one Matt! Makes me want to dig up the ole IIC back at the house in Texas!
This sort of thing is straight up my alley. I have a 2c and a 2e and a cinema. Definitely doing this 😊
Glad to see you're back! Felt like you've been gone forever !
I think I speak for everyone when I say it's been too long between videos! Hoping for more soon, awesome work.
These videos are so fun. Please keep mixing things from different decades, centuries, milleniums. The concept is very clever and interesting. :-D
Awesome work, super cool idea.
What the hell kind of fun is that? Lol Good one.
Greatest combination of all time! I'd like to see this setup in a coffee shop one day. Matt, you're very *cool* for sharing this with us. I enjoyed the ambitious remark at the end as well. :)
An Apple 2C was actually my first computer at home. If I could give you more thumbs up.... I would.
"Of course you can... But what the hell kind of fun is that?"
AWESOME
Really love this series Matt!
Great video, Matt!
David Di Franco Hi David!
David is so hot to me
you are crazy, i love history. without history is no future, thanks for video !
Thanks for the new video, Matt! Waited for a new video for a long time.
This is a FANTASTIC new video series! Looking forward to more in the future. :)
"But what the hell kind of fun is that?" YOU'RE MY HERO!
Thanks, Matt. This should make Woz a little proud :)
I just got my Apple IIc working again. I'm going to try this tonight!
Miss seeing your uploads >_< You look so grown up now!
Glad your back matt! awesome video!
Matt is so underrated.
Oregon Trail !!! omg
iRemember the 3D dinosaur game that was for the iMacs that came in neon colors. i was in 3rd grade.oh nostalgia.
Amazing! Do you think you can do this? Apple Video Connector (1990's) to VGA to HDMI to DisplayPort to Cinema Display? Hint: Apple Video Connector Was used on many of Apple's 1990's computers.
Very pro as usual Matt. Good stuff.
And as always, KILLED IT!!!!!!!! I love your editing style, but i wish you would come out with more videos often. Thanks man! Keep up the good work!
backlit keyboard in 1977?
Already kicking ass back then
This is awesome on so many levels!
Tomas Villegas Thanks dude!
Great video.
Nice! Not that much informative, but it gives the retro feel, and brings a lot of aesthetic satisfaction! Thank you dude!
Very cool. I wonder if an Apple IIGS can be connected to a modern monitor...
That actually looks quite good, with the IIc. Here's an idea for "New Tech Old Tech." Replace ancient noisy 3.5-inch IDE hard drive in the original CRT iMac (or other old Mac you own), with a tiny current SD card. I did this with 2.5-inch IDE hard drive in my year 2000 PowerBook (Pismo), using adapter from "Sintech" and a common 32GB SDXC card. It worked great, although my Pismo now has an even BETTER solution. :)
I love these videos. Can you hook an Apple TV to the Apple II monochromatic monitor?
Nice video Matt!
This made me laugh out loud quite a few times. Thanks for the awesome video Matt!
Gavin Michaels You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
My yellow composite cable works connected to my 48 inch Sony Bravia HD tv. The only thing I have not figured out is if theres a way to have two cables connected with some kind of splitter so I wouldn’t have to keep,disconnecting my cable for the Apple ][ GS and the to the ][e and keep having to,do it every time I switch.
Gives me a great color display for free.
I use my moms Apple II+ from college to type my college papers haha I use a modem card and send the paper to a fax machine, which in return prints it.
This was actually really cool! I'm surprised that this worked!
But my main concern is, does the converter and TV interpret the Apple II's low resolution 192p signal properly? I've seen problems with older gaming consoles where HDTV's will misinterpret those consoles 240p signals as 480i, causing side effects such as heavy blurring, jittery images, skipped frames or "combing", an issue where 2 progressive scan frames are combined to look like an interlaced frame (you will see lines during fast motion or rapidly flashing images). I heard that cheaper analog to HDMI converters still won't interpret the signal properly, but more expensive ones such as the XRGB Mini framemeister will convert it properly. Also, the XRGB mini has RGB input, which may show better quality with newer Apple II models such as the IIc.
Ryan Good I would hope that this works. The Apple II's video signal is (more or less) NTSC-compliant. This is why it always worked on TVs with a cheap RF modulator (Apple's original solution before they started shipping monitors.)
A composite-to-HDMI adapter that can't handle the signal wouldn't be able to handle old VCRs, game consoles or anything else from that era.
Dear Mr Mathew.
Please could you help me.
I have an Apple II GS, is there any way for change the monitor for a new flat monitor ?
Is the same way as the Apple C of your video or need another one kind of interphase or adapter.
Thanks
Hi Matt! I had a question for FCPX. I recently bought the software and I'm wondering how you add images into you videos that aren't perfectly rectangular. Thanks!
I really love your videos! They are so different of everything I've seen :)
There aren't enough donkeys in the world to fully express how much this kicks ass. Kudos! I hope you figure out your keyboard problem with your Apple ][
As usual awesome video! Please make videos more often. I really look forward to watch your videos. Keep up the great work. A room set up, new tech, review, etc MAKE MORE CONTENT!!!
awesome video! would love to see more of this!!
Keep these videos up. Love them!
This was cool, had no idea this was even possible!
I'd be curious to see if a IIgs would work on that monitor with it's different video connector.
I'd now like to see a modern machine on an old Apple monitor. Of course, it would need to be a color one!
I always love your videos man!!! we need more of them more often please ! D:
Wow! What a fantastic video! Love this style. I wonder what's next! Perhaps getting the Apple ProFile working on your Mac Pro?
Benjamin Woodring I actually do have a Lisa Profile sitting around...
Matthew Pearce Challenged!
love your style of making videos, great production quality! You should do more videos :)
Mac Pro tower to one of the older Mac monitors? Like the Apple II or later.
More videos like this please! I really enjoyed this vid!
Very nice work!
Dude, this guy is AWESOME!!
That is one cool gaming setup! Next time: Try to connect a Mac Pro to an Apple IIc Monitor!
Pretty dope video if you ask me! Keep'm coming Matt!
Awesome video! Amazing skills!
The color issues you are having are actually normal. I have an old Apple ][e and whenever I would hook it up to something that was displaying color it would do that very same thing. I used to use an old style VCR and use that to go directly to a TV set from there and had the same display issues. Not to mention that the TV sets I had back then didn't have a video in port on them, just the cable in. However with that said, if you had a monitor form that era, then because of the way it reads the signal it would appear much better.
Packard Sonic This is because the Apple II used some ugly hacks to produce NTSC color. They did not generate a proper color signal, but play games with odd/even pixels in the presence of a colorburst signal to fake it. Which means that text ends up with lots of color fringes. Then they improved on the hack (in the //c and //e - don't know about older models) by turning off the colorburst signal when in text mode, to avoid this color fringing when just displaying text (which is critical when trying to display 80-column text.
Apple's color monitors (and some other composite monitors) would sense the absence of the colorburst signal and display everything in monochrome mode. Apple's monitors would also have a pushbutton to force it into monochrome mode even in the presence of colorburst, in order to support apps designed for displaying graphics on monochrome monitors.
But, as I learned from personal experience, most TVs (especially if you use something like a VCR as an RF modulator) will respond poorly to the absence of the colorburst signal. My experience showed that this would produce color fringes in text mode, and that the fringes would flicker on and off (vs always being on when in graphics mode.)
The blue vertical lines that the first Apple II displayed are indicative of a hardware problem. That never happened, even with a TV.
Shamino0 Thats intersting. I was able to record some of the graphics out to a VRC from my Apple ][e (As I recall the "e" stood for enhanced It made some of the graphics watchable to a point) and the signals came out not great like we have today standards, but watchable at least to a degree. Text was a whole other issue especially if it was 80 columns. I did most my work on a green screen for text editing. But I didn't know about the color burst thing. Thank you for telling me about that.
Mathew, I looove your videos! They are so great, awesome, .... I don't know what to say. Incredible :)
Studio Tech Studio Tech, what are you doing here?! :D
Watching the best tech videos ever :)
Studio Tech Ha. Thanks.
Now that was awesome !!
Hi matt, what res does the HDMI to mini display port put out on the ACD?
Great great video!!! Every aspect of it is perfect! Please make more like this :)
So let me get this straight,I can hook up my TV to my Apple IIe as it was done on the video?
Do you have apple museum or something in your house?
so cool this, very entertaining and nostalgic
Please, more like this, well and also the other stuff!! :D I loved this video!
victorMD11 More like this one coming soon!
Matthew Pearce Awesome to know! ^v^
Very cool I still have an Apple 2e that works perfectly
Is there a way to make the old mac faster at game play? I remember playing the Kings Quest and it was soooo slow.
That was a fun video man, two thumbs up
What lens and camera did you use to make this video. Very nice !
Andrei Koshelev All the camera info is in the description, but I used the Rokinon Cine 35mm and 85mm.
Amazing! Love it!!
Wow. Super cool!
0:40 A green monochromatic screen...
You could just say "A green monochrome screen".
Anyway, awesome video, Mat!
It sounds weird
+Alaine Gozun I know... I know.
Yes! Please keep making like these :)
Great Idea
Matt's TV must have a reaalllly good ATD converter.
is that the thunderbolt or cinema display
Dude, what font did you use for this video's intro?
Best series!
wow this is awesome!
That was awesome !
Hi. What effect are you using on the start?
For your next NewTech-Old Tech video, you should figure out how to use a feather quill pen as an Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro.
Really liked watching the vid
Apple // initially weren't able to display colors in europe, it's basically using weaknesses of the ntsc standart to create colors.but soon enough, people made rgb cards for scart televisions ( and rgb monitors too )
Hi Matthew.
Will work with an Apple Cinema Display 20-Inch (Aluminum)?
Sebastián Jara it will
Man I had one of those apple 2 computers in the 90s but it broke :( I'm thinking of buying one again now that I see you can plug it up on the apple display